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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

The truth about ginger ale, dessert at the Jones, vegans in the basement. We’re not saying it’s been a politically correct week on Twitter, but it was fun nonetheless.

By Jessica Voelker June 24, 2011

If lobsters could kill, we all know who’d go first.

The food people freaked this week when Eater.Com got shut down by the FBI for, like, more than a day.

Suddenly there was all that free time! It was very alarming.

What did we do with it? Why we tweeted about food, of course.

Here are our top food tweets from the past week or so:

At 5. Comedy writer Alan Sulkin says a true thing about ginger ale:


4. Imagine the writers of Frasier did a flashback episode in which we saw the Crane brothers negotiating elementary school. Here’s a joke a nine-year-old Miles might have told in the schoolyard:

3. Ruth Bourdain is back with another moment of sheer foodie brilliance:

2. Esquire writer Chris Jones managed to slip this one in:

1. And the number one tweet of the week goes to Cobra Commander, with apologies to our vegan friends.

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